The National Trust has written a blog on the Royal Assent of the HS2 Phase 1 Act – the first of three pieces of legislation that will allow the Government to build HS2.
The Trust notes that: ‘In particularly sensitive landscapes such as the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Aylesbury Vale, huge care must be taken not to scar the landscape beyond the inevitable harm that constructing a large modern railway will bring, and planting and screening work needs to be carried out with reference to the natural and historic grain of those landscapes. In the Chilterns the unfortunate decision not to put the railway completely into tunnel makes this care and early attention of high priority.’